Braden Cordivari received his BA in Classical Studies and Anthropology with a minor in Archaeological Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. His undergraduate thesis presented excavation results and contextualized the Beyceğiz tumulus, a Phrygian monument at Gordion in central Anatolia, where he is a member of the research project. He has also excavated at Morgantina on Sicily as part of the Contrada Agnese Project. He was the John Williams White Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 2018-19, taking part in the Regular Year program. Braden completed an MPhil in Archaeological Science at the University of Cambridge in 2020-21 with a thesis on 15th/17th century technical ceramics and copper metallurgy in the Niari Basin, Republic of the Congo.
Braden is currently researching copper alloying practices of the 1st millennium BCE in central Anatolia. He is interested in human-environment interactions around raw materials, in particular metals, and in the wider interconnectivity of the late 2nd and early 1st millennium BCE world. He co-coordinates the Expanding the Ancient World outreach program.